Hyperstrike
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Okay first off. Celeron. Okay for desktop productivity. Not so great for gaming. The amount of L2 cache is less than a quarter of what you'd find on a dual-core C2D or i5. This means that the system is going to be falling back to system memory (RAM) of which you're already using a half just to keep your OS going, and then disk (which is several orders of magnitude slower than system memory).
This means that the CPU gets to spend a lot of times figuratively twiddling it's thumbs.
Second, the 9400. This is the lower-end cards of nVidia's 9*** series.
Praetoria is optimized for Ultra Mode and not all the measures taken to make sure it "degrades" gracefully at lower settings insure that you are going to gain performance back.
Also, I notice a couple performance suckers still active. Anisotropic filtering is still up fairly high (4x), shadows are still on (albeit stencil), and your particle effects are still set to high (50K).
You MAY benefit a little from upgrading your drivers (you can get the current 258.96 drivers). But I don't expect spectacular results from them.
About the only other thing I could recommend would be to start turning other things off (Chrome, Skype, etc). -
Quote:Can you provide us with the necessary CoH Helper and Hijack This logs?Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself
Anytime I log into Praetoria, the game is laggy to the point of being unplayable, but blue or redside is absolutely fine. The graphic basically stutter every couple of seconds between a series of still images, no real animationg. There are other strange graphical glitches too, but those occur in all areas, and go away when I move the graphics slider back and forth.
The Praetoria problem, though doesn't go away. At first I thought it was just because of all the people trying out Praetoria, but no one else is having lag troubles at the same time as I am.
2 gig dual core with Nvidia Geforce 9400GT
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Quote:The critters in the trial drop nothing. No XP, inf, recipes, salvage, inspies, NADA.Originally Posted by StarGeek
Was it just me or did these spawned critters not drop any inspirations at all. I came into it with a near empty tray and I don't believe I ever got a drop from them.
Someone was saying that an all-nuke run happened on Pinnacle. If that's what's REQUIRED for this, it needs refactoring.
Maybe next time we can bring a slightly more debuff-heavy group with. Lord knows WE got debuffed enough! -
Quote:Dude! I brought a defense capped tank and ate a bunch of purples to compensate for the L54 GM and it STILL never missed me.Originally Posted by Archiviste
Yep... next time I'll bring something less squishy, like a tanker or a SR scrapper...
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Quote:Originally Posted by Navarp
What level is this superteam? I just resigned up and this sounds like an intriguing team.
Like the group over on Freedom, this is a "come as you are" event. If you wanna show up with a brand-spankin' new Fire/Rad, you can. Realistically though, if you're in TF range (10+) it's easier for everyone (and more rewarding). -
Quote:Also, if you have access to the Tiki Lounge in Pocket D, go check out Trina's new costume. I don't think we need to say who designed it.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Arbiter Reginald Fabulous (aka Equation):
Author of the "Because I Have to Look at You" column in the City Scoop. Other than being a player and regular forumite, I honestly don't know what else he's done with relation to the game.
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Hey there! Welcome!
Okay, as you've noticed, there's not a humongous difference in the classes at extremely low levels.
The low levels are basically to get you used to playing in your AT and learning basic tactics and skills for overcoming obstacles in the game.
Once you hit your teens, your powers will mature a bit. You'll have more slots to play with and can start diversifying your abilities a bit. Just before you hit your teens, you graduate from Training Origin enhancements to Dual Origin enhancements (1 DO grants the same boost as 2 TOs).
Once into the 20's, your core powers (and some important ancillary powers) start to arrive. Early on, you also gain access to Single Origin Enhancers (1 SO = 2 TOs) and your performance really starts to take off.
Up into your 30's you secondary powers start filling in the gaps and you begin playing a lot more like you should for the rest of the game. Slots become quite plentiful and you've got the ability to start slotting higher level IOs that, even with the multi-aspect versions, provide greater return than just single aspect Single Origin enhancers.
Once into your 40's, you start rounding out your powers and filling in little gaps here and there. Early on you gain access to your Patron Pool/Epic Pool and you get to play around with some powers that are normally outside the purview of your traditional AT roles or are extremely useful additives to it.
Just be patient. Take your time. And DON'T rush yourself to 50. You'll thank yourself later, and be a much better player because of it. -
Team Debt Cap Lives!
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Yup. All the servers are going down for maintenance. So, likely, they have the patch for the online store ready.
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Quote:If you continue getting BSODs and the like, you may have something else going on too. If it continues, post copies of your CoH Helper and Hijack This logs.Originally Posted by MadJack
No I'm running on Win XP. Shortly after I posted this question it started working again, but then I got blue screen of death. I'm restarting now. Let's see what happens.
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Quote:Not to be a pedantic Richard, but here I go.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
That ^
Is this a nuisance? Yes. Was it an avoidable issue that tarnished an otherwise relatively smooth release? Yes. Am I more annoyed at Paragon for breaking my surround sound? Yes. Will I get over it? Also yes.
Define "avoidable" in correctly applicable terms as it applies to NCSoft/Paragon's City of Heroes service setup. Include the appropriate action plans and budgets necessary to achieve your objective as well as the full estimates of raw labor and programming necessary to make it happen, as well as a full hardware list.
AKA (See standard code rant) -
Quote:Who says the online store is overloaded?Originally Posted by Obsidius
Not to be overly critical, but with the foreseen popularity of the game with the launch of Going Rogue (as indicated by the recent forum cleanup), wouldn't it have been a forethought, in addition to the free character transfer service on top of the release of a major expansion, that bolstering of the online store may have been a necessary step before launch day?
I just don't see how this slipped by the development or net opps teams.
What if there was some goofy, obscure code error in there someplace that was causing the server to run amok, eat money, and poop in everyone's left shoe (unless it was an Air Jordan)?
There HAVE been several EXTENSIVE maintenances on ALL of the servers in the past few weeks in prep for this. Unfortunately, Uncle Murphy is law unto himself.
So cut them some slack.
Does it suck? Sure!
Will it be fixed? Sure!
Was this intentional or through malfeasance or laziness? HELL NO! -
Quote:Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
So I have a new evil plan when the market returns.
I'm going to buy purples from myself at a ridiculously inflated price so that the only history is my price.
Likewise I'm going to sell myself a glad armor proc for 1 inf.
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Quote:What OS are you on?Originally Posted by MadJack
I'm trying to play and every time I run the updater I get stuck at Fixing Files: piggs/sound.pigg. It's got 167385/sec to go. At that rate my vacation will be over and I'll be back to work. Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions for this issue?
If Vista/Win7, are you running by just double-clicking on the link or doing "run as administrator"?
If you're not doing the latter, please do so.
Also, were you in beta at all? If so, you can just copy the piggs folder from beta and wipe out the checksum file.
I ran into this last night too. I'd already gotten the pre-download, and it choked on one pigg and went into telling me that it was going to be FOUR HOURS to fix.
I then did the "copy from beta folder" trick and was up in 30 minutes.
It seems to happen to me every issue. -
Quote:I'm in.Originally Posted by kidengineer
We'll be attempting the CoP trial heroside Tuesday 6:30pm Pacific/9:30pm Eastern. Reply here or send me an offline tell if interested.
I'll even provide the base if people need it. It's already set up for a CoP run. -
Quote:Layer 8 ErrorOriginally Posted by plainguy
Picnic
Or ID Ten T
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Quote:Originally Posted by NIGHT_RUNNER
Just thought I would provide an update that I shelled out last night to buy a truly uber computer. Over the top, in fact.
I should be happy, but I'm afraid. They will be coming tonight to deliver and set it up. I'm also changing to wireless router, wireless fax/scan/copy/printer, etc, etc.
I am afraid. Very afraid. But once they are done and I get my games installed things will be better, right? right???
Kudos on the new computer.
Meh on going wireless everything...
Don't get me wrong. Wireless is very nice and handy and a good thing to have...as a backup. But my internal network isn't wired gigabit for nothing. -
Quote:Moreover, it can set-mule.Originally Posted by PhroX
But it can still benefit you by acting as a prequisite to Weave (assuming you've not got +def set bonuses)
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Quote:No, because the servers only have three load lights.Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
THE DEVS HATE SERVERS!!!!!
Am I doing it right?
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So, you're essentially saying that this is a slap in the face that's so "slap in the face'y" that it's a slap in the face to slaps in the faces?
What a slap in the face...
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Okay, I lied. A bit of jiggety-pokery with swapping out files from my beta folder and I'm up and running.
I'm in on Freedom right now.
Waiting on the hill. -
Okay, I lied. A bit of jiggety-pokery with swapping out files from my beta folder and I'm up and running.
I'm in on Freedom right now.
Waiting on the hill. -
Quote:You get punch sooner.Originally Posted by Danzini
ROAR!!! MY PUNCH WILL NOW STRIKE FOR 26 DAMAGE!!!!
Man I really just don't feel very super strong right now... mostly due to my own idiocy in taking Punch over Haymaker.
Honestly, thank you every for taking the time to help me out on this one. Time to go slug my way into the 20s so it will start getting better.
You can slot up punch sooner.
Yeah, Haymaker is nicer. But it's also slower (twice the recharge time and 25% longer animation) and costs more (~50% higher end cost) . As such, your kill speed won't increase appreciably.
You can punch roughly twice for every single Haymaker and do more damage. -
Quote:Glad you're coming to this realization.Originally Posted by Akiru_NA
Yes, how dare they all try to play an MMO with large numbers of other people. It's just irrational.
I look at it this way. On the Fun > Not Fun meter.Quote:If you think holding to that right now is just exceptionally stupid, I don't think most people expect it to stay this way, and don't want to be screwed once it finally dies back down.
Play RIGHT FREAKIN' NAO > Wait 20-30 minutes to log in (if not more) and navel gaze.
And, once server load DOES go back down, HOW are they screwed?
They can still go to the server of their choice.
They can create a new character there.
They can transfer their current characters there. -
For the "I want to play on a high population server" and "The other servers are empty" crowds, please burn this image into your mind.
And note, it JUST turned 5PM Central. Imagine what it's going to be like later this evening.
